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The bill increases platform accountability and user safety by creating duties and court access for harms from recommendation algorithms, but it raises litigation risk and compliance costs that may degrade services, create uneven protection for smaller platforms, and generate legal uncertainty.
Children, young adults, and families gain the right to sue platforms for compensatory and punitive damages when recommendation algorithms foreseeably cause bodily injury or death.
All users (especially young people) benefit from a legal duty requiring platforms to exercise reasonable care in algorithm design and operation, which could reduce harms like self-harm promotion or violent coordination.
Individuals keep access to public courts because predispute arbitration clauses and class‑action waivers cannot bar injured users from suing platforms, preserving transparency and judicial remedies.
Social media companies face substantial new litigation risk and potential liability, likely raising costs that could be passed to users or lead firms to cut services or staff.
Platforms may broadly limit features or reduce algorithmic personalization to avoid liability, degrading useful recommendations and overall user experience for young adults and families.
The law's scope excludes smaller platforms due to a narrow platform definition and a 1,000,000-user threshold, leaving users on those services with fewer protections and creating unequal safety coverage.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Amends §230 to impose a reasonable‑care duty on recommendation algorithms of covered social platforms and allows federal lawsuits (with damages) where violations cause foreseeable bodily injury or death.
Official title: Amend section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 to limit liability protection under that section for certain social media platforms, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 18, 2025 by John R. Curtis · Last progress November 18, 2025
Creates a new legal duty for large social media platforms that use recommendation algorithms: they must exercise "reasonable care" in designing, testing, training, deploying, operating, and maintaining recommendation-based algorithms to prevent reasonably foreseeable bodily injury or death. If a covered platform fails to meet that duty, it can lose Section 230(c)(1) immunity and be sued in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages; arbitration clauses and class‑action waivers cannot block these suits. The bill narrows which services are covered, preserves First Amendment limits and certain exceptions (e.g., chronological feeds and initial user searches), and makes a few technical statutory edits elsewhere.